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On November 6, the day after the US presidential elections, in the train from Paris to Brussels, I’m looking hard for a silver lining. (That is a mental health lifestyle choice of me, always look for silver linings.) The only one I can come up with is: clarity. Under president Trump, international cooperation in health will serve the interest...
Only eight years separate Alan Whiteside’s HIV/AIDS: A Very Short Introduction: 2nd Edition from the original edition of 2008, but the sticker on the cover does not lie: it is a “fully updated new edition”. The content has been updated, the tone has changed too. Reading the original edition filled me with optimism; the 2nd edition made me ...
In December 2006, Gorik Ooms and colleagues argued that humanity may need some kind of “world health insurance” to realize the right to health. Concurring, Wim Van Damme added that it should take the form of a world social health insurance which strengthens health systems in low-income countries. In a nutshell, we argued for a Global Fund fo...
